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* ''VideoGame/PajamaSam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside'': Otto the boat offers some "Gratuitous Educational Content" in the form of [[OverlyLongGag an overly-detailed explanation of how geysers work]], which causes Sam to briefly nod off.

* In ''The Underground Empire'' by James Mills, a federal agent is complaining about how difficult it is to explain the complications of the international drug trade to US politicians, who would rather just be told about a BigBad they can hate. In one case, a senator actually fell asleep during his presentation.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Schisms", Riker interrupts Data's poetry reading "Ode to Spot" with a snore.

** At one point in the, "Jet Fuel Formula" story arc, Boris, ([[PaperThinDisguise posing as a hypnotist]]), manages to put Bullwinkle under in order to get from him the recipe for Grandma Moose's Fudgecake recipe, which also happens to be the world's most powerful rocket fuel, however, Boris makes the mistake is asking Bullwinkle to tell him everything he knows... Bullwinkle does just that, and tells him ''everything'' he knows, nonstop for twelve hours; Boris, Natasha, and Rocky fall asleep while listening.

* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': Beetle himself is a champion napper who might fall asleep during anyone's speech. That aside, the General's speeches sometimes bore people to sleep. With Chaplain Staneglass, it's a minor RunningGag and ExaggeratedTrope, so his sermons can even put animals to sleep. Combining these elements makes it even worse: When the Chaplain tries to talk to Beetle about his tendency to fall asleep during sermons, Beetle falls asleep at the start of the talk, and when the Chaplain and the General have a chat, ''both'' fall asleep.

* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': Beetle himself is a champion napper who might fall asleep during anyone's speech. That aside, the General's speeches sometimes bore people to sleep. With Chaplain Staneglass, it's a minor RunningGag and ExaggeratedTrope, so his sermons can even put animals to sleep. When the Chaplain and the General have a chat, ''both'' fall asleep.

-->--'''Oliver Harding''' on '''Edward Lionheart''''s acting, ''Film/TheatreOfBlood''

* Josh from ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'' deliberately fakes a "[[HeadDesk Sixth-Grade Geography]]" in order to interrupt someone who's {{holding the floor}}. Unfortunately for him, he misjudged the hardness of the [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.720.html solid oak table]].
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': When Stockyard plys Duane with prostitutes to keep him busy Duane reads dry scripture to them until they fall asleep and then sneaks out of the building.

* Induced in ''Film/ManOnTheMoon, which includes a portion based on Creator/AndyKaufman's real reading of ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' to an audience who assumed he was going to do some comedy skits. Those people who actually stayed through the whole thing are shown yawning and stretching to get up as he finishes the book.

* Ended up being averted in one story of the Swedish comic ''91:an''. [[DrillSergeantNasty Furir Rickard Revär]] ''intended'' to put his men through one of these meant to break them by forcing them to listen to a lecture from one of the most infamous bores around. Said bore ended up being late however and with the soldiers already getting angry and irritated, being the coward he was, the bore decided to put himself on the soldiers good side by allowing them to watch ''[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay Terminator 2]]'' instead. Suffice to say, [[HairTriggerTemper Revär]] was not happy when he found out.

Oftentimes the speaker is WindbagPolitician or TheBore. Can result in AsleepInClass. Related to LongSpeechTeaTime, but this trope is about characters unintentionally falling asleep on the speaker rather than deliberately ignoring them.

* The Principal's endless boring speech in the entrance or graduation ceremony is an almost obligatory joke in Japanese high-school comedies.

* In the 1979 Disney comedy ''Unidentified Flying Oddball'', a NASA astronaut travels back in time to the days of King Arthur, and tries to explain how he got there by describing everything that's going to happen between the discovery of America and when he first blasted off. His long rambling lecture only confuses the King and puts his court to sleep until Merlin loses his temper and suggests they BurnTheWitch

* Sometimes the end result of an [[EmotionEater energy vampire]] feeding in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' is the victim becoming drained and lethargic if they don't pass out altogether. Colin Robinson deliberately cultivates a persona of being a {{Troll}} and TheBore to feed. Other energy vampires have similar tactics of obnoxiously indulging in long winded tangents on niche topics.

* Season 4 of ''Series/TheMaskedSinger'' has a running gag of panelist Creator/KenJeong rambling on who he thinks the Giraffe contestant is, but one episode takes it UpToEleven by having the Giraffe and panelists Jenny [=McCarthy=] and Nicole Scherzinger lie down to sleep as Ken goes on, the show cut to a commercial break, then returning with Ken still rambling.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', a patient keeps getting light-headed and passing out, but it only happens when he yawns. Dr Cox, trying to prove a point, orders JD to tell him a story. Halfway through the first sentence the patient falls over. [[JerkAss Halfway through the second sentence,]] [[WorthIt Dr Cox falls over.]]

-->'''Red Guy:''' Huh? Oh, I'm so sorry, ''[[NoIndoorVoice I FELL ASLEEP]]!'' (''starts jotting notes'') Now, you say it all started seventeen years ago?

** Exaggerated on the episode "Naughty Nautical Neighbors", when Squidward plays his clarinet for Patrick. Patrick falls instantly asleep after the first note.

** Another episode has Keswick continually putting the other agents to sleep with his long boring technobabble speeches. Taken UpToEleven when Keswick starts to give a long speech about why he ''isn't'' boring and promptly puts ''himself'' to sleep.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents episode,'' "Future Lost", Timmy and Cosmo fall asleep whenever Wanda tries to teach them a lesson about doing the right thing. [[spoiler:She does this to herself at the end of the episode after Timmy and Cosmo both fall asleep again.]]

** A framing device in the episode, "I.R. Wild Baboon" has Weasel defending himself with a reporter over a prison phone about how he was trying to film a documentary on Baboon's peculiar and constant migration habits (it turns out Baboon was annoyed by Weasel following him and was trying to get away from him). After Weasel finishes his story, [[PaperThinDisguise Red Guy, as the reporter]], wakes up.

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* General Secretary UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev is on the third hour of a speech to the Party Congress when the KGB arrest several American spies in the audience. Brezhnev congratulates them, but wants to know how they were able to identify the spies. The KGB reply, "Comrade General Secretary, as you yourself have often stated, the enemy never sleeps."
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Happens frequently when Jon tells stories to Garfield about his boyhood on the farm. During one week of strips Garfield has insomnia and is trying to get to sleep, but can only actually fall asleep when Jon does this. Later invoked by Garfield when he gets insomnia again, he actually goes to Jon and tries to get him to do this.

* In an ad for Advertising/{{Progressive}}, Flo's sister summons her to her home with a text saying she wants her to come over and talk about insurance. When she gets there, her sister is wearing Flo's niece in a pouch. Flo starts talking about insurance and she tells her "Keep saying your words." As she completes her next sentence, the baby stops crying and nods off and her sister closes the doors. "Shhhhhhh. Sleeping baby."